I am a full-time expressionist painter with a surrealist edge. I paint urban landscapes and personify buildings so they look like the people who live in them. I render our urban landscape with a blend of caricature and idealism. I make buildings look like living things and my stylized distortion of architecture often represents the people who inhabit the buildings and neighbourhoods. The vivid colours and implied instability create a whimsical view of the city that seems as happy as most of us wish we were. I've learned that you can't control the world but...more